Frans Rasmussen

Although Frans Rasmussen has conducted in the Royal Danish Opera and Royal Danish Theater, and has led many prominent Danish and Western orchestras, he’s probably most widely known for his choral conducting, especially using the ensemble he founded, the Canzone Choir. With this group he offers made several acclaimed recordings for the Kontrapunkt label, including a four-volume series, the Danish Music Treasury. And in addition, Rasmussen’s orchestral repertory consumes very much Danish music, including functions by Carl Nielsen, Niels Gade, Rued Langgaard, Johan Peter E. Hartmann, and countless additional notables. But he in addition has conducted lots of the regular classics and championed music by modern composers, including Gyorgy Ligeti. Rasmussen’s eclectic reach can be broader still, increasing to big music group music and symphonic jazz. Further, he’s a professor in the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he offers taught orchestral performing for quite some time. Besides Kontrapunkt, Rasmussen offers documented for BIS, Dacapo, and Danacord. Frans Rasmussen was created in Aalborg, Denmark, in 1944. In his youngsters he researched piano and continuing in that quest in the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he also researched performing. From 1977, he started appearing like a conductor, both in Denmark and overseas. In 1979 Rasmussen founded the Canzone Choir (Canzonekoret), categorised as the Canzone Vocal Outfit on recordings. From 1980-1986 he frequently led performances in the Royal Danish Opera and Theatre. By the first ’90s Rasmussen was internationally known, both for his use the Canzone Choir (their 1990 BIS documenting of Gade’s The Crusader, with Rasmussen leading them as well as the Århus Symphony Orchestra, was extremely acclaimed) as well as for his operatic and orchestral looks, which prolonged across European countries, Africa, Asia, as well as the Americas. From 1992-1996 Rasmussen as well as the Canzone Choir documented their popular group of four CDs for Kontrapunkt, The Danish Music Treasury, which have already been reissued in the brand new hundred years. From 1994-2000 Rasmussen offered as artistic movie director from the Royal Danish Safeguard Music group. Rasmussen was appointed chairman from the Danish Conductors Association in 1997. In the brand new century Rasmussen continued to be energetic on all fronts, attaining particular difference for his recordings: he led the Canzone Choir with an acclaimed 2006 Danacord Compact disc of the entire a cappella functions of Carl Nielsen. From 2006, Rasmussen held the post of initial guest conductor on the Ho Chi Minh Town (Viet Nam) Ballet and Symphony Orchestra.